Is Priscilla's Marriage Proposal Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Overview

Priscilla Mortia spends her last mana stone, a Dragon Heart, to buy back the fifteen years a wicked stepmother and a forced marriage already took from her. She lands back at the point her family still ruled its land, this time as a mercenary mage who knows exactly what's coming. Getting her magic and her name back means surviving the same scheming stepmother again, but also finding her way back to Kian Lustin, the swordsman she loved and lost the first time around. Merona's novel, adapted into webtoon by VISCACHA, ran from 2020 to 2023 and wrapped complete at 130 chapters.

What it does well

Priscilla is the reason this works. She's not a passive noble waiting for her circumstances to improve; she's spent fifteen years as a working mercenary mage, and the story lets that experience actually inform how she handles her second chance, tactically and emotionally. That competence gives the regression premise real teeth instead of just resetting the clock and hoping nostalgia carries the plot.

The romance gets similar care. Rather than rushing Priscilla and Kian back together to satisfy the title's marriage-proposal premise, the book takes its time letting their history and their present reconnect, so the eventual payoff feels earned instead of assumed. The stepmother and the other antagonists circling House Mortia are written with consistent, legible motives rather than existing purely to be obstacles, which keeps even the villain-facing chapters from feeling like filler. VISCACHA's art shifts comfortably between mage-mercenary action and the quieter beats of the central relationship, which matters in a story asking both halves to carry real weight.

Where it falls short

The political stakes around House Mortia never get quite the same investment as the romance does. Readers who want the noble-family intrigue to matter as much as Priscilla and Kian's relationship may find some of that plot resolving a little too neatly, more formality than genuine threat. This is, at its core, a romance wearing a regression-revenge structure, and it's honest about that priority even when it means some of the surrounding plot machinery gets less attention than it could use.

Verdict

It's a well-executed regression romance that knows its central couple is the draw and builds toward them with real patience instead of padding. Worth reading if you want a competent heroine and an earned slow burn. Skip it if you need the political revenge plot to carry equal weight.